How Dmico2 started their logo design journey

Summary

Logo needed for a financial site giving Option picks. Options are a fast moving and risky investment. We will target novice to intermediate level investors. Slogan will be "It's time to wake up your portfolio."

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The logo should be serious as we are dealing with investment advice but also fun and dynamic as we are a web-based company dealing with a wide variety of investors. Options are a risky and fast moving investment. A good deal of our advertising will come in the form of HTML e-mails to prospective customers and the logo/slogan will be on these
e-mails. Other requirements:

Version #1 of logo to use on website:
-Please supply logo with slogan and without.
-Go to http://www.optionalarm.com and right click on on top left corner and save current logo.
-The logo must have the background in the current logo, same size, and be a gif
-Logo must work in current color scheme on website
Version #2 of logo to use in HTML emails
-with full slogan and without
-with short slogan 'wake up your portfolio' and without
Version #3 of logo
-Black and White and Grey Scale, with and without slogan